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Holocaust Final
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There are three main events that I will focus on in this writing. They will include the devastation at the Krakow concentration camp and a survivor story, the Auschwitz II built by Himmler, and the German army invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece on April 6, 1941. It is my intent to demonstrate to you that the events that took place at Auschwitz were more devastating to humanity than any of my other events.


Before the war, Krakow was upholding over 60,000-80,000 Jews in Krakow concentration camp. Jews were obliged to part in forced labor in September 1939. Throughout Krakow synagoes were ordered to release all their valuables over to the Nazi authorities. The difficult thing about having to be forced into doing something this, is that all your hard work and devotion means nothing once it is taken. They felt violated, hurt and stolen from and it changed their lives forever. (Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc) (Plaszow – (Unpublished Document) Robin O’Neil
www. Cekie.Krakow.pl/oboz_plaszow)
(The Righteous – Sir Martin Gilbert
Auschwitz Chronicle – Danuta Czech
The Holocaust Journey – Sir Martin Gilbert
www. Gedenkendienst.org PK – Krakow) (Mostly found in the Polish National Archives in Krakow, ul. Sienna 16. Some of these are available from the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons). Birth records 1798-1808, 1811, 1812-1831, 1845, etc., Polish census records 1790-1792, birth and death records 1845,1850, 1877, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920; conscription list 1847; marriage records 1798-1847, business lists 1900-1939, lists of professionals 1930-1935, telephone directories 1937, etc. We are grateful to Mr. Geoffrey Weisgard, of Cheshire, England, for providing copies of selected pages from the Austrian census, 1796-1797.)

Sitting back watching your loved ones die and your children crying and not be able to do anything about it is devastating. Walls from the surrounding cities isolated the Jews in Krakow. All windows and doors that gave onto the \'Aryan\' side were ordered bricked up, although four guarded entrances allowed traffic to pass through. One of the positive outcomes of this devastation is that there were some who were blessed enough to survive. Tadeusz Pankiewicz was a Polish pharmacist who owned the Eagle Pharmacy in Krakow. Thankfully he was \"permitted by the German authorities to continue the business. (Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc) (Plaszow – (Unpublished Document) Robin O’Neil
www. Cekie.Krakow.pl/oboz_plaszow)
(The Righteous – Sir Martin Gilbert
Auschwitz Chronicle – Danuta Czech
The Holocaust Journey – Sir Martin Gilbert
www. Gedenkendienst.org PK – Krakow) (Mostly found in the Polish National Archives in Krakow, ul. Sienna 16. Some of these are available from the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons). Birth records 1798-1808, 1811, 1812-1831, 1845, etc., Polish census records 1790-1792, birth and death records 1845,1850, 1877, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920; conscription list 1847; marriage records 1798-1847, business lists 1900-1939, lists of professionals 1930-1935, telephone directories 1937, etc. We are grateful to Mr. Geoffrey Weisgard, of Cheshire, England, for providing copies of selected pages from the Austrian census, 1796-1797.)

In recognition of his heroic deeds in rescuing Jews from the Krakow Ghetto he was awarded recognition as a Righteous Among the Nations. He published a book about his time in the ghetto, \"The Cracow Ghetto Pharmacy\". The Jews were definitely persecuted like no other group of people on earth. It was by far the second most tragic event done to humanity in all of history during the time. (Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc) (Plaszow – (Unpublished Document) Robin O’Neil

www. Cekie.Krakow.pl/oboz_plaszow)
(The Righteous – Sir Martin Gilbert
Auschwitz Chronicle – Danuta Czech
The Holocaust Journey – Sir Martin Gilbert
www. Gedenkendienst.org PK – Krakow) (Mostly found in the Polish National Archives in Krakow, ul. Sienna 16. Some of these are available from the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons). Birth records 1798-1808, 1811, 1812-1831, 1845, etc., Polish census records 1790-1792, birth and death records 1845,1850, 1877, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920; conscription list 1847; marriage records 1798-1847, business lists 1900-1939, lists of professionals 1930-1935, telephone directories 1937, etc. We are grateful to Mr. Geoffrey Weisgard, of Cheshire, England, for providing copies of selected pages from the Austrian census, 1796-1797.)

The Auschwitz complex was divided in three major camps. Auschwitz I main camp or Stammlager. Auschwitz II or Birkenau established on October 8, 1941 as a Vernichtungslager (extermination camp). Auschwitz III or Monowitz was established on May 31,1942 as and Arbeitslager’ or work camp. There were up to seven gas chambers using Zyklon B poison gas and three crematoria. (\"The Death Factory\") (THE CAMP OF DEATH) (“Evil Too Great to Grasp – or Remember”)
Auschwitz II included a camp for new arrivals and those to be sent on to labor elsewhere. Being placed in a gas chambers and put the death was an unexpected way to die. The Jews were completely taken by surprised and deceived into believing the chamber was actually used for taking showers. They obviously had no idea they were about to die and definitely not this type of slow death. At the Krakow concentration camp the Jews knew moments before their deaths. (\"The Death Factory\") (THE CAMP OF DEATH) (“Evil Too Great to Grasp – or Remember”)
The estimated number of deaths 2.1 to 2.5 million killed in gas chambers of whom about 2 million were Jews and Polish, Gypsies and Soviet POW\'s. There was up to or about 330,00 deaths from other causes. In April of 1940, Rudolph Hoss, who became the first commander, identified the Silesian town of Oswiecum as a possible site for a concentration camp. Many people around the world are interested in capturing this history and regularly visit the Auschwitz Museum every year. It was very disturbing to research a story about a man, in his late 60\'s, who was visiting the museum last year in 2007 and noticed his father in one of the photographs. (\"The Death Factory\") (THE CAMP OF DEATH) (“Evil Too Great to Grasp – or Remember”)
“We stood in front of one of the pictures showing an SS physician on the ramp selecting new arrivals for death in the gas chambers,” recalls Lech. “The German visitor pointed to a young man wearing an SS uniform, standing to the left of the physician, and said, ‘That young man in the SS uniform is my father.’ He laid the album on the window sill and showed me four photos from the album.” When he was a child he didn\'t know much about what happened to his because he was so young. “The son knew almost nothing about his father’s wartime fate,” says Lech. “He was born in 1942, and said only that his father was held by the British until 1947, and became a pastor a year later. He died in 1988. His widow told her son that his father had served an internship as an orderly in a mental institution in Berlin in 1937, and might have been at one of the Nazi euthanasia centers in 1941.” This was likely a very heartbreaking moment for this grown man to come to knowledge that his father played a role in the deaths of so many Jews. It was by far the most tragic event done to humanity in all of history. (\"The Death Factory\") (THE CAMP OF DEATH) (“Evil Too Great to Grasp – or Remember”)

At the time of the Axis occupation in 1941, about 100,000 Jews lived in Greece. Their fate was greatly influenced by the differing priorities of Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria with regard to the Jews. The Battle of Greece generally regarded as a continuation of the Greco Italian, which began when Italian troops invaded Greece on October 28, 1940. Within weeks the Italians were driven from Greece and Greek forces pushed on to occupy much of Southern Albania. In March of 1941 a major Italian counter attack failed and Germany was forced to come to the aid of its ally. (Chronology Holocaust) (AGGRESSION AGAINST GREECE AND YUGOSLAVIA) (Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,) (Lisa Hoffman writes for Scripps Howard News Service)




The combined Greek and British forces fought back with great tenacity but were vastly out numbered and outgunned. The forces came with great aggression and tremendous strength. They finally had no other option but to give up and accept their defeat. The British Commonwealth managed to evacuate about 50,000 troops. The Greek campaign ended in a quick and complete German victory with the fall of their country. (Chronology Holocaust) (AGGRESSION AGAINST GREECE AND YUGOSLAVIA) (Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,) (Lisa Hoffman writes for Scripps Howard News Service)




At the outbreak of World War II Loannis Metavas, the prime minister of Greece sought to maintain a position of neutrality. However, Greece was increasingly subject to pressures from Italy, which culminated in the Italian submarine. After hasty and heavily improvised planning, the first German forces announced that they would be ready to attack Yugoslavia and Greece on Palm Sunday, April 6, 1941.In the first 72 hours of the war Yugoslavia desperately looked to its allies - the Soviet Union and Turkey - for assistance, while at the same time avoiding tactical arrangements with the Greeks that might restrict the freedom of maneuver of its army. Neither Turkey nor the Soviets wished to get involved in a conflict against Europe\'s premier military machine, however, and so avoided criticizing the German invasion. (Chronology Holocaust) (AGGRESSION AGAINST GREECE AND YUGOSLAVIA) (Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,) (Lisa Hoffman writes for Scripps Howard News Service)

The events that took place at Auschwitz were extremely devastating because of the many lives that were taken. The Krakow concentration camp had a lot of deaths also, but did not even compare to the number of lives lost at Auschwitz. It is therefore, the second most devastating in my view. Now the battle in Greece surprisingly had the least deaths out of all my events. So therefore that the battle at Greece is the least devastating to all humanity.

(BIBLIOGRAPGY)
#1 Durrell Sellers (Oskar Schindler)
1) Schindler, Oskar 2) Jan 10th, 2008
3) Krakow ghetto was an influential cultural center for the 60,000-80,000 Jews that resided there.
4) The original title is Krakow but they talk about notable person, and history.
5) Jan 2008 (date unknowned)
6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_Ghetto
7) The Jewish Ghetto in Krakow (Cracow) was one of the five main ghettos created by the Nazis in the general government during their occupation of Poland during WWII.

#2 Durrell Sellers (Rudolph Hoss)
1) Hoss, Rudolph
2) Dec 13,2007
3) Auschwitz- Birkenau Extermination Camp Poland
4) The title Auschwitz- Birkenau known as Death Factory location Oswiecium, Poland established May 26th, 1940.
5) Jan 2008 (date unknown)
6) http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/AuschwitzEng.html
7) Estimated number of victims: 2,1 to 2,5 million (This estimated number of death is considered by historians as a strict minimum. The real number of death is unknown but probably much higher, maybe 4 millions)

#3 Durrell Sellers (Yad Vashem)
1) Vashem, Yad
2) Dec 13, 2007
3) Chronology of the Holocaust 1939-1941
4) The Germans occupied Vilna on June 24. Within a few days, the Germans and the Lithuanians issued orders forcing Jews to wear the Jewish Badge, forbidding them to walk on sidewalks and enter certain locations, stipulating a nighttime curfew, and limiting their food purchases. On July 4, the Jews were ordered to establish a Judenrat. Concurrently, the Germans, assisted by Lithuanian volunteers, began to abduct Jews—some 5,000 in July—from the streets and their homes, to take them to Ponary, and to murder them. The Jews of Vilna and their relatives knew nothing whatsoever about the fate of their loved ones.

5) Jan 2008 (date unknowned)
6) http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/chronology/1939-1941/1941/chronology_1941_15.html

7) He stressed that Hitler considered even life imprisonment for anti-German activity an indication of German weakness. The Ministry of Justice expressed no objection to being charged with implementing the punishments stipulated in the order or to the guidelines it was given by the Wehrmacht General Staff. The right to clemency was not applied to Jews and Communists. The surviving “Night and Fog” prisoners were liberated in April and May 1945.

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